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Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record At 40.8 Percent 2008-09-30 01:15:00 Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have set a world record in solar cell efficiency with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of the light that hits it into electricity. This is the highest confirmed efficiency of any photovoltaic device to date.The inverted metamorphic triple-junction solar cell was designed, fabricated and indepe Read more:Solar
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CLAAS LEXION 580 is the new world champion in combine harvesting 2008-09-30 01:04:00 British farmer Keith Challen recently demonstrated just how much he identifies with ”his“ brand of combine
harvester, the CLAAS LEXION 580: Under the watchful eye of an invited Guinness Book of Records official, the LEXION 580 harvested 532 tons of wheat in eight hours. That’s 18 percent better than the previous world record.The LEXION 580, loaded with high-tech equipment including GPS steer Read more:champion
Lowest Fuel Consumption Volkswagen's Car Set World Record 2008-09-30 00:50:00 The world's most fuel efficient couple, John and Helen Taylor, have broken the current world record for lowest fuel consumption across the 48 contiguous United States averaging 58.82 miles to the gallon. They ended their 20 day trip in West Virginia on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. To help them break the world record, they drove the all-new, 50-state-compliant clean diesel Volkswagen
Jetta TDI, fueled Read more:World
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Largest Jigsaw Puzzle Guinness World Record 2008 2008-09-30 00:36:00 Some 15,000 enthusiasts have assembled the world's largest jigsaw puzzle in the southern German town of Ravensburg, Europe's biggest puzzle maker said.Puzzle
maker Ravensburger AG said 1,141,800 pieces were put together in only five hours on Sunday, forming a nearly 6,500-square foot (600-square meter) puzzle that nearly covered the town square."We really like puzzling," Ravensburg resident Sonja Read more:World
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World's Biggest Print Digital Image World Record 2008-09-29 04:27:00 Base3, the Argentina-based printer, has been commended by Guinness WorldRecord
s for producing the world's biggest printed digital image. The company celebrated with photographer Robert Ruiz, its partner in the scheme. The 60x20m poster depicts Ischigualastao, in Valle de la Luna. It is displayed in Buenos Aires and was produced using HP’s Scitex XL1500.Top Views - Guinness Book of World Record
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Longest Hot Dog Guinness World Records 2008 2008-09-29 04:18:00 Danny Girton Jr., adjudication executive for North America for GuinnessWorldRecords
, measures a hot dog during an attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the largest hot dog, in Monterrey, northern Mexico September 27, 2008. The event was organized by local businesses with the support of the Monterrey city hall. The hot dog measured 76.23 meters (250 feet) and broke the previous record of 6 Read more:Longest
Ferrari 250 GTO - World Most Expensive Car World Record 2008-09-29 03:58:00 1961 Model Ferrari
250 GTO becomes world’s most expensive car after being sold for 20 million euros at auction A car widely renowned as the most beautiful of all time is also now officially the most expensive after a model sold for €20 million at an auction.Only 39 models of the legendary Ferrari 250 GTO model were ever built, from 1962 to 1964. It was already considered one of the most valuab Read more:World
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Bowling Marathon Guinness World Records 2008 2008-09-29 03:30:00 A group of avid bowlers will be attempting to bowl themselves into the GuinnessWorldRecords
Books in Chorlton next month.The Lloyd Hotel Bowling
Club from Chorlton will at 6.00pm on Saturday 25th October at South West Manchester Cricket Club on Ellesmere Road in Chorlton commence what will hopefully be a successful attempt to break the Guinness World Record Outdoor Bowls Marathon
record.The Lloy
Future Predictions 2008 to 2026 by Juseleeno 2008-09-26 04:41:00 Mr. Juseleeno, born in 1960 (reportedly still alive in 2008), is a Brazilian who has made many predictions, and MOST have come to pass, including Princess Diana's death by car accident (which is instigated by someone near her and will probably unfortunately be written off as a car accident), 911 and the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. He sees the future in his dreams, and has an average of 3 to 9 such pr Read more:Future
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World's Smallest 5000 Years Calendar on a Key Chain 2008-09-24 08:10:00 Mr Ajay Kumar Khaitan, an Electronics Engineer from India has developed the world's smallest "5000 YearsCalendar
on a Key Chain
". It looks like a Pencil Battery & its so simple, even a child can use it without any help. It doesn't require any lens and takes just 5-6 seconds to use it.The record is self explanatory, its unique, wonderful & amazing. Everybody wonders as to how the 5000 Yrs Read more:World
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Longest Time Breath Held Voluntarily World Record 2008-09-24 08:03:00 World champion freediver Tom Sietas endured a nail-biting 17 minutes and 19 seconds underwater on "Live with Regis and Kelly" to set a new Guinness World Record
for the Longest
Time Breath
Held Voluntarily. The German national beat David Blaine's previous record of 17 minutes 4 seconds that was set on The Oprah Winfrey Show in April. By breaking the record, Sietas reclaimed his title as Guinness W Read more:World
Calgary Food Bank sets world record 2008-09-23 13:01:00 The Calgary
Food Bank collected a whale of an amount of food in one day. The food drive yesterday took in more than 200 tonnes of food, or the weight of a blue whale, the heaviest animal on Earth. Food bank spokesman April Cruz said that amount of chow set a new record for the most amount of food collected in a single day.More than 7,000 volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sai
World's Most Expensive Mobile Phone Number 2008-09-23 12:49:00 The sale of world's most expensive mobile phone number has earned a Qatar telecom company a place in the new edition of Guinness Book of World
Records.The phone number 6666666 of Qtel, which was sold for $ 2.75 mn (Qatar Riyal 10 mn) to an anonymous buyer in an auction at a charity event last year, will appear in the 2009 edition of the book, it was announced.The previous record price for a phone Read more:Mobile
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Guinness Book of World Records 2009 Launches 2008-09-17 00:12:00 Guinness WorldRecords
Book Launches 2009 edition the global Best Seller Returns with Remarkable New Records, All Exclusive Photography and a 3D Perspective!On 17th September 2008, Guinness World Records releases the 2009 edition of the internationally revered bestseller in the first-ever worldwide launch.54 years and counting, the globally acclaimed book surpassed Jamie Oliver and Russell Brand d Read more:Guinness
Worlds Smallest Man meet Longest Legs Women 2008-09-16 23:30:00 Standing at just 2ft 5in high, He Pingping, from China, has been officially named the smallest man in the world.Svetlana Pankratova, meanwhile, owns the longest legs in the world, which stretch to 132cm.Mr Pingping barely came up to Ms Pankratova's knees at a bizarre photoshoot held to mark the launch of the new Guinness Book of World Records.But the pair seemed rather happy in each other's compa Read more:Longest
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Worlds Largest Burger Guinness World Record 2008 2008-09-15 07:47:00 A Downriver bar has beaten it's own world record for creating the world's largest commercially available hamburger.Crews from the GuinnessWorldRecord
s were at Mallie's Sports Grill & Bar, 19400 Northline, recently shooting pictures and video at the bar. The bar broke the world's record in February by cooking up a 134-pound hamburger with all the fixings. During the Guinness visit, bar person Read more:World Record
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Most Connected Living Hollywood Actor World Record 2008-09-15 07:26:00 British actors Hugh Laurie and Christopher Lee have had their status as top Hollywood
stars confirmed with entries in the Guinness WorldRecord
s 2009.The latest list of record-breaking achievements, which goes on sale on Wednesday, will see 86-year-old acting veteran Lee crowned Most ConnectedLivingActor
.A database created by the University of Virginia mapped the working relationships between mo
Most Powerful Hollywood Actor and Actress World Record 2008-09-15 07:02:00 Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Britney Spears Make Guinness WorldRecord
s History in New Book 'Brangelina' Named Most Powerful Actor
s In Hollywood
While Britney Takes Record As The Most Searched Person On The Internet In Guinness World Record
s 2009 EditionThe spotlight is on Hollywood this year as Guinness World Records reveals some record-breaking news about some of the biggest players in "Tinselt
Most Participants in a Tetris Tournament set Record 2008-09-11 23:37:00 To celebrate its third anniversary, The Personal Computer Museum in Brantford, Ontario has been given the go ahead by the London, England-based Guinness World Record
s™ corporation and the Tetris
® Company, LLC to attempt to establish a new record for the most participants in a Tetris Tournament
on September 13, 2008. The event will also feature hands-on stereoscopic 3D (S-3D) gaming demonstratio Read more:Participants
Large Hadron Collider - Worlds Biggest Physics Experiment 2008-09-10 12:06:00 International scientists celebrated the successful start of a huge particle-smashing machine on Wednesday aiming to recreate the conditions of the "Big Bang" that created the universe.Experiment
s using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest and most complex machine ever made, could revamp modern physics and unlock secrets about the universe and its origins.The project has had to work hard to Read more:Worlds
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Large Hadron Collider - LHC Interesting Facts 2008-09-10 11:57:00 Roger Highfield draws together a range of interesting facts about the Large Hadron Collider atom smasher at CERN* The £4.5 billion machine has a circumference of 27 km (17 miles) and lies an average of 100 metres (330 feet) under the ground, straddling French and Swiss territory. advertisement* At full power, trillions of protons - subatomic particles - will race around the LHC accelerator ring 1
School Girl has set Snail Balancing Guinness World Record 2008-09-09 00:29:00 A SCHOOLGIRL has set a new world record - by having 25 slimy snails slither over her eyes, nose and mouth.Tiana Walton, 9, of Pye Corner Farm, Alvanley, is awaiting official confirmation that she is a record breaker for keeping snails on her face.Guinness
Book of Record
s rules state that the competitor has just one minute to put the snails on their face before tipping their heads forward for 10 se Read more:World
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Worlds Longest Cucumber Guinness World Record 2008-09-09 00:05:00 The 36.1in cucumber was grown by Alf Cobb who beat his own record of 35.1in at the National Amateur Gardening Show at the Bath and West Showground in south-west England.Farmer Ken Dade's marrow tipped the scales at 143lb (65kg) – more than 30 times heavier than the 4.4lb variety found in supermarkets and almost 7lb heavier than the previous world record, set by a fellow British grower, Mark Bagg Read more:World
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World Longest BLT Sandwich Guinness World Record 2008-09-08 23:52:00 WINDSOR – The town that brought us the world’s largest pumpkin pie and the biggest apple pie in America was shooting for the longest BLT sandwich on Sunday.At the Windsor Farmers Market, students from the Windsor High School Culinary Arts program slathered chewy French bread with mayonnaise and layered the tasty bed with juicy heirloom tomatoes and mixed lettuce greens.And on top, 120 pounds o Read more:World
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Bella - Worlds Oldest Dog Dies at 29 2008-09-08 23:36:00 Bella, a Labrador cross, was bought by David Richardson from the RSPCA, 26 years ago when she was three years old.She had lived with Mr Richardson, 76, and his partner Daisy, 81, since 1982 in Clay Cross, Derbyshire.But she was put down on Saturday following a heart attack while on holiday with the couple.Until Bella the record for the oldest dog was held by Butch, a 28-year-old from America who d Read more:Worlds
Highest Run in Cricket Test Match World Record by Sachin Tendulkar 2008-10-18 01:13:00 WHEN the fireworks stopped and the smoke cleared, SachinTendulkar
was the most successful batsman in the history of Test cricket and Australia was consigned to a long, hot afternoon in Mohali. One minute after tea, Tendulkar dispelled his own anxiety and that of an entire nation when, at long last, he sent a deft glide to third man to inherit the world record from the princely West Indies bat Read more:Cricket
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World's Biggest Ostrich Sandwich World Reccord 2008-10-16 12:37:00 The mass cooking venture takes place in Tehran as teams of chefs gather to prepare what they say is the world's largest ostrich sandwich.A team of chefs and their assistants were to gather in Mellat park in central Tehran Thursday to prepare what is being billed as the world's biggest ostrich sandwich, consisting of 1,000 kilograms (2,205 pounds) of meat and stretching to a length of 1,500 meters Read more:World
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High Wire Rider Nik Wallenda Set Guinness World Record 2008-10-16 11:27:00 Wednesday morning around 8:30, as high-wire Rider
Nik Wallenda -- seventh generation of the famous Wallenda family of tightrope walkers -- set a guinness world record in riding a bicycle across a 235-foot wire suspended from two cranes some 135 feet in the air.The event took place near the Prudential Center arena in Newark, N.J., where Wallenda is performing with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &am Read more:World
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Worlds Biggest and Heaviest Pumpkin Record 2008 2008-10-14 08:50:00 This year's Half Moon Bay pumpkin-growing contest saw a new world record Monday, with an Oregon man's 1,528 lb. gourd claiming the prize.The heaviest pumpkin wins the annual contest, with the winner taking home $6 per pound, and a potential of $20,000 in prize money up for grabs. That means Starr took home more than $9000 for a pumpkin that weighed in about 150 pounds below the world record. The r Read more:Record
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Longest Poker Playing World Record 2008-10-12 01:53:00 Unless, of course, you are Dave Cain. In that case, the action is likely just getting going.Although Guinness has not yet declared the result official, word is set to come any day that Cain is the new Guinness WorldRecord
holder for poker playing endurance. He set the mark of 74 hours and 12 minutes at the Library Bar in Lincolnshire, England from Sept. 14-17. And it was nearly enough to send the Read more:Longest
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